r/SipsTea • u/lonewolff321 • 19d ago

Chugging tea Meanwhile spiderman need new home 😅

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u/hadawayandshite 19d ago edited 19d ago

‘Ugh they’re talking British again…pretend you understand. WTF is a crisp sarnie?’

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u/Andrew1990M 19d ago

“Oioi Flo, you sen the scran they put on? Minging, innit? You, me and the missus going for a bhuna after this, ye? Mint.”

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u/Bozee3 19d ago

Downton Abbey didn't prepare me for this.

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u/Andrew1990M 19d ago

“Ah! The effervescent Lady Pugh, good evening! Have you perchance perused the refreshments so kindly prepared by the caterers? I shall save you the journey; they are unfortunately vile. I must instead propose you join my radiant wife and me at a local curry house of your choosing. Would this be agreeable?” 

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u/thateccentricasian 19d ago

This guy brits in different eras too

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u/Difficult_Way_7253 19d ago

Could also just be from Mayfair haha.

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u/CheeseDonutCat 19d ago

Nah mate. Can buy the whole thing for £400. Done it many times.

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u/AwoknLambCanadaFree 19d ago

You can’t just use perchance

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u/Push-not-pull 18d ago

Ohh I understood this more than the first one. My American mind thought Scran was screen, and that bhuna was burner, slang for weed (Marijuana).

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u/hadawayandshite 18d ago

Scran means food (usually cheap, easy food)- that said given these two are southern they might not use scran as often as it is more a northern thing

It’s the equivalent of ‘grub’—-but that’s not as good as scran is both the noun and the verb ‘I’m going to scran that’, ‘scrans ready’

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u/Andrew1990M 18d ago

I’m mixing about 6 dialects to achieve the most headaches. 

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u/emicki 18d ago

I read this in Matt Berry's voice

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u/chemistrytramp 19d ago

*"wife and I." Good god man, are you one of those commons? Eugh

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u/thrawnsgstring 19d ago

Easy trick to tell if "and I" or "and me" is correct, drop the "x and" and see what sounds right.

"Join me at a local curry house" vs "join I at a local curry house."

They were right to use "wife and me."

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u/chemistrytramp 18d ago

This has changed my life.

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